For the 23rd goEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany DAVRA’s short films screening from Central Asia was presented in Mumau cinema. Screening was followed by Q&A with artists Aïda Adilbek and Zumrad Mirzalieva and the discussion “Post-, neo- and de-colonial Central Asia: human rights activism and collective filmmaking”.

Curated screening consisted of films made in recent years by younger generation of female artists and filmmakers in order to understand the state of things in the region through their gaze. As part of the screening 7 short films were selected: 

• Asel Kadyrhanova, All the dreams we dream, 2020, Kazakhstan

• Alla Rumyantseva, I met a girl, 2014, Tajikistan

• Nazira Karimi, Hazm Kardan Dushvor Ast (Hard to digest), 2021, Tajikistan

• Art-group “Strekooza”, Escape from freedom, 2010, Kyrgyzstan

• Aïda Adilbek, Send me your words, 2020, Kazakhstan

• Madina Saidshoeva, Namad, 2022, Tajikistan

• Zumrad Mirzalieva, Autonomy, 2022, Uzbekistan